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HATE UP TO MY COUCH: PSYCHOANALYSIS, COMMUNITY, POVERTY AND THE ROLE OF HATRED – Patricia Gherovici
This article is based on the author’s experience working as a psychoanalyst in Philadelphia’s barrio in the 1990s, which led her to meditate on the psychology of racism, segregation, and other forms of intolerance of difference and otherness. The author argues that no analyst can be immune to the cultural context in which they work Read more
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Migration: or Where Do I Call Home?
This day event will explore the issue of migration and belonging and consider these experiences in the consulting room. The day will involve talks from three highly experienced speakers from each of the professional associations of the BPF, a child and adolescent psychotherapist, a Jungian analyst, and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. The talks will explore the Read more
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On-demand Webinar: Freud, Lacan and the Psychic Pleasures of Race – Sheldon George
Freud, Lacan and the Psychic Pleasures of Race – Sheldon George On-demand 1.5 CE Description Length of webinar: 90 minutes Our political and social moment seems destabilized by an increased emphasis on racial difference. But psychoanalysis has long ignored the stabilizing role aggression toward racial others has played in structuring society. Decades after American slavery ended, Read more
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Online event: White Supremacist Ideology, Internalization, and Organization of African-American Identity
COLLOQUIUM FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2022 White Supremacist Ideology, Internalization,and Organization of African-American Identity CHANDA GRIFFIN, LCSW Co-sponsored by the Committee on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) Recent psychoanalytic literature offers closer scrutiny of how our institutes and practices mirror and reinforce racism in America. Current discourse has centered whiteness as the primary area of inquiry. However, Read more
Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 